Eating News & Notes: New beer for a new year

5:51 PM,
Jan. 1, 2014

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? Great Basin Brewing Co. recently released Mayan Maybe Not, a new beer that makes humorously references the Mayan long count calendar cycle that ended in late December 2012 and the apocalypse that wasn't. The beer does celebrate Mayan-inspired ingredients: maize, vanilla, cocoa, chile pepper.

The brew offers a balance of sweet and bitter with a spicy nip. Order at Great Basin brew pubs: 846 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 775-355-7711, and 5525 S. Virginia St., 775-284-7711.